Morning Mail: Oil hits US$100 as Trump threatens Iran, Musk muses on ‘meaningless’ money, Commonwealth Games begin

Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here, and finish your day with our Afternoon Update newsletterMorning everyone. The cost of living issues clouding Labor’s national conference could become more acute after oil soared over US$100 a barrel again overnight and Donald Trump threatened “a massive attack” on Iran. We have full reports on the worsening situation in the Middle East.We also look at how Pauline Hanson is mining the US president’s playbook after a week of controversy, Elon Musk says money might become meaningless and speculates that the universe is a computer simulation created by aliens, and – speaking of which – the Commonwealth Games have opened in Glasgow with King Charles stepping out of Doctor Who’s Tardis.The Games begin | The Commonwealth Games have opened in Glasgow in a scaled down event forced on the organisers by the late withdrawal of Victoria. Follow the opening ceremony live, while the Commonwealth’s fastest man on two wheels, Matt Richardson, has brushed off the impact of his controversial switch to England as having “zero effect” on him.Labor ‘allergic’ | Outspoken Labor backbencher Ed Husic claims the party has become “allergic” to dissent and dispute, warning the unity on show at its tightly controlled national conference could backfire.Bird song | Seven-year-old Miles Phillips’ song about the eastern rosella has gone viral and been compared to the Strokes, the B-52s and Taylor Swift. He tells Rafqa Touma how he wrote it.Origin hack | Origin Energy customers’ addresses, phone numbers and partial bank account data have been accessed in a hack, the company has confirmed.Poles apart | A Northern Territory minister has been criticised for scientifically inaccurate claims that groundwater in the territory needs to be used to prevent the Earth’s magnetic poles from flipping. Continue reading...